When Ensworth’s Aubrey Moore started cycling with his dad a few years ago he never thought it would lead to a college scholarship, but that’s just what happened when he signed with Cumberland recently.

“To be honest, I didn’t think that I was going to do the college route,” Moore said. “I was going to do the conventional pro cyclist route and just skip college, but no — not with my parents. I’m extremely excited to have a scholarship.”

Moore, a 2010 Ensworth graduate, has been racing all over the country for the past four years.

“Racing has sort of turned into an addiction for me,” Moore said. “I guess I’m a competitive person and there’s always that, ‘Next time I’ll get that guy sort of thing.’ It’s a pretty brutal sport. You’re out there for several hours and a lot of times you get nothing out of it and it’s expensive and hard to do and you have to drive all over the place to do it, but I really like the people in it, for sure.”

Moore hopes to race professionally in Europe someday.

“That sounds like the life to me, but if it doesn’t happen I’ll have a college degree,” Moore said. “I’m not putting all of my eggs in one basket. Cycling in Europe is like football in America.

“It’s extremely popular over there, especially in the Belgium area. It’s huge over there. All the cyclists there are rock stars.”